Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| -1Ho ueepeSJ well IN Ln0 world II
at Homewood, Penna., and is 5000 fee
! below the surface.
+ Edward Weston, the once famoui
| pedestrian, ls now a reporter on New
York daily, it is stated,
An electric railway is talked of in
| CInclnnati-to run between that citJ
and Arondale, a suburb.
Jamaica is said to contain about
/ 500 species Of ferns, or one-sixth of til,
! ferns of the whole world.
-Disinfectant5 are put in the wa.
UerIng carts IN Boston by order OF the
/ Public Safety Department.
Telephone communication, con-
Meeting Paris with Amsterdam through
/ Brussels, is 10 be established shortly.
"A company has been organized tc
supply Boston with steam, or rather
hot water, for domestic and mechan-
ical purposes.
Russian traders are reported to
have established a store in Thibet,
which has hitherto been closed to out
side commerce.
-Buenos Ayres is said to have
theatre capable of accommodating
1000 spectators. The cost is estimated
at S., ZOO, 900.
Kansas has new county called
Greeley. There are only two towns
IN the county yet, and one is Horace,
the other Tribune.
Some 10, 100000 eeIs are SOFA IN
London every year. The Bilingsrate
eel-trade amounts to something ike
go, per annum.
Passing railroad trains have so
Jared a large chimney In Boston that
its removal has been recommended 10y
the Building Inspectors.
The cholera caused A general clean
ing or the streets OF Santiago in the
Argentine Confederation, aud Is 900
car loads Of refuse were removed.
"A cent an acre was all that some
of the thousands OF acres in Oneida
and Herklmer counties, New York,
brought at sale the other day,
"A workman il a valley in CalIfor-
MIA was struck and almost instantly
killed by a twenty-five pound stone,
which had been lOOseled ABOVE by a
dog.
Mayor Hewitt gives a Street JOm-
missioner of New York the alternative
of having the city's streets at once
made clean or handing N his Te5igua-
tion.
Alexander Coke, Who IS this year
graduated from Yale, IS the heaviest
man who ever received a diploma from
that institution. He weighs 2S5
pounds.
"A salmon CAPTURED in the Hudson
river recently IS believed to be one o.
the fishes hatched by Seth Green II
lf trr47 -,
years ago.
The postal communications with
her AsIatic, African, and Australian
possessions cost England a little over
100000, of which amount E36J 900 IS
a dead loss.
The foreign dress is making steady
I=Ogres5 in Japan. II IS reported that
there are 2JJ of these dressmak=Is iu
Osaka, and they are uniting in a special
tTade guild.
Hopes, slight, To be sure, are said
TO be entertained by lie Physicians who
are treating BaTrley Campbell. the
play right, thai he may ultimately re-
cover his reason.
The rapidity with which railroads
have been constructed III Japan, IecItes
a local journal, Is shown by the fact
that there are now 3I0 miles IN daily
Work on the island.
"A debtors gallery has been pub
lished by WinnepeE, (NanitOba) pho
tOgraphcr, who had plainly marked on
each portrait the amount the subject
owed him. Results are not reported.
The claims for damages fled
against the Boston and Providence
road, result OF the Busy bridge dis
aster, ranging from 500 TO $4,000, in
individual sums, amount IL the aggre-
gate TO over 100000.
The fund for the widows and or
phans of the policemen who were killed
during the Chicago riots is to be dis
tributed on the basis of a payment of
$1,000 to each widow and $500 to each
orphan under 10 years Of age.
The Naval Department of Japan
proposes that the standing fleet consist
hencefOrth of fifty war ships and sew
eral cruisers, involving the expenditure,
including the cost Of torpedo apparatus,
armament, etc, Of about SO, 600. 600.
"A pair of elephant tusks measuring
Z feet S inches, were exhibited TO a re-
porter recently. They weighed respec-
lively l50 and l3I pounds, anI were
valued at $1,000. The same dealer had
4 pair measuring eleven inches.
Gathering potato bugs is quite a
lucrative business In parts OF Virginia,
and as high as 3 a day Is earned bv
some of the women engaged IN il.
Compensation IS at the rate of five
cents per yeast powder" canfull Of
the insects.
"A citizen of new York, whose
house was robbed went to report his
loss at a police station, but SAYS that
when he had made known his errand
the sergeant in charge answered, ''Oh,
go hang yourself" lie senslbIy wrote
to the newspapers Of his treatment in
stead.
The people of the United King
dom were Indebted in the year 1884 to
foreign countries for a supply OF 992.-
Cos ,7GO eggs. For poultry and game,
rabbits included, they had to pay to
Continental exporters, the handsome
amount Of eG7O,6 600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany uses 5000 tons of coal a day on
its various lines, and is the largest
consumer of soft coal in the country.
1t IS now experimenting with natural
gas as fuel for its engines, and pro-
poses, if the plan should prove TO be
feasible, to use gas on all the engines
running into PlttsbuTg.
The public revenue of all Austral-
asia amounted in 1884 TO e22 ,2S5, 600,
and the public expenditure 920, ,G59 900.
The public debt at that time was e97,-
944, 900. the value Of imports EG4, ,353,
coo, and Of exports, "a, 1886, 900. In
the same year shipping representing
1885, 600 tons entered and cleared out
of the various ports, irrespective OF
mere coasting- trade.
Railroad property now constitutes
one-tfth of the accumulated capital OF
the United States, gives employment
to 65O, 900 people, and moves 400 OOO.-
600 tons OF freight annually, one-haIf
OF which is fuel and focd, and 90
cheanlV that tho ~ o,.---.--. =